Gallery openings in St. Louis

A modest attempt to list gallery openings in the visual arts in St. Louis

(Searching by date is probably the best way to find all events for a particular day)

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Art St. Louis: Saturday, 3 October 2015

"Fiber Focus 2015"

FREE reception with juror Marci Rae McDade

THIS Saturday, October 3, 2015, 6-9 p.m.

at ART SAINT
LOUIS

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FIBER FOCUS 2015

AUGUST 8-OCTOBER 8, 2015

We invite you to join us for a free reception-with awards announcement & a brief Juror's Gallery Talk with Marci Rae McDade in attendance-HISSaturday, October 3, 2015, 6-9 p.m.

"Fiber Focus 2015"
is a juried contemporary fiber art exhibit that was open to artists
residing in Missouri and the eight states that are contiguous to our border
(in Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and
Tennessee).

This exhibition is
hosted by and presented at Art Saint Louis, 1223 Pine Street, St. Louis, MO
63103. 314/241-4810. The exhibit is current on view and runs through October 8,
2015.

Most of our featured artists will be
joining us for this special evening, too, so we encourage you to take this
opportunity to meet our wonderful juror and these talented artists and see
their works in our show.

"FIBER
FOCUS 2015" EXHIBITION JUROR

This year's Juror is artist Marci Rae McDade,
Editor of Surface Design Journalsince 2012). Marci is also a mentor and instructor in the MFA Applied
Craft + Design Program, cosponsored by the Oregon College of Art and Craft
and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT & ARTISTS

Seventy-nine artists from eight of the nine eligible
Midwestern states submitted 200 artworks in all fiber media for jurying
from which Ms. McDade had to make her selections for this exhibition. From
those entries, Marci selected 50 artworks by 43 artists for the final show.
The artworks that she selected for the exhibit highlight fiber art and
fiber techniques in a variety of themes and media including assemblage,
basketry, beadwork, ceramics, crochet, dyeing, embroidery, felting,
knitting, mixed media, paper, photography, quilting, sewing/stitching,
surface design, tapestry, and more.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Phiilip Slein Gallery: Friday, 2 October 2015

PIBAL, CHILTON, AND KUHARICAT PHILIP
SLEIN GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 5-8PMTwo of the finest
artists working today within this historical construct will present
recent work in Structured, a two-person show at the Philip
Slein Gallery. Ann Pibal, based in New York, and Todd
Chilton, based in Chicago, are working opposite ends of the
room. Pibal is a hard-edge painter, like Mondrian, whose
paintings consist of color fields over which float thin lines and
blocks of color, all of which are painted with precision. Chilton's work,
on the other hand, is characterized by a much more loose formalism,
as he builds his pieces by thickly layering paint over hand-drawn
patterns.

Ann Pibal, RSFP, 2015, acrylic on aluminum, 28 x
35 inches

Katharine Kuharic, Up (Autumn), 2014,
oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches

KATHARINE KUHARIC:A MASQUE OF MERCY

In addition, the
gallery is pleased to present new work by an old favorite of ours. Katharine
Kuharic, who taught for years at Washington University, returns
to St. Louis and the Philip Slein Gallery. Kuharic, based in New York
and known for her realist style and social concerns, presents a small
exhibition of intricate and precious work entitled A Masque of
Mercy which speaks to the consolations of nature.

Michael Byron’s new paintings continue a body of work which is a culmination of the artist’s working methodologies in traditional painting, collage, and installation which debuted in an one-person exhibition at Michelle Grabner’s exhibition space, The Suburban, in Oak Park, Illinois in May 2015. The artist’s interest in moving painting into a theatrical dialog has expanded from his 1983 Backdrop Series into his new work employing large-scale, commercially enlarged collages as substrates for the inclusion of abstract and figurative paintings from the artist’s Grisaille Series. The gallery walls, painted a light gray, serve to position Syntax Within a Gray Scale 2.0 as a fuller manifestation of this theatrical “syntax”. In conjunction with the exhibition, Bruno David Gallery Publications will publish a catalogue of the artist’s work with an exhibition history and bibliography.

In the Media Arts Room, the gallery presents a video installation “South Slavic Requiem” by Zlatko Ćosić. South Slavic Requiem concludes a series of art projects related to the war in Yugoslavia but also opens up new territories to address current political and social issues. In remembrance of the 20th year anniversary of the end of the war in Yugoslavia, South Slavic Requiem is a tribute to people who died as a result of national, racial, religious and other types of discrimination. Many were eager to separate into national groups, which contributed to the end of Yugoslavia. George Orwell said, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.” South Slavic Requiem symbolizes an end of one culture which allowed hate to take over.

In our relocated Bruno David Projects @ 3721, the gallery presents an installation “2016 / 20,000” by T. M. MacLowe. With T. M. MacLowe’s work, the reaction from the viewer is immediate and instinctual. The political and social commentaries on current events are direct and unapologetic, giving viewers the opportunity to assess their society and themselves within it. The artwork morphs these thoughts into stunning visual creations that represent opinions that are shared by many, but often kept private. These works show how our current society is redefining itself and is reminiscent of the works of Leon Golub, Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jaar, Peter Kennard, Jenny Holzer and Hans Haacke.

Reese Gallery: Friday, 9 October 2015

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 9th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

ARTIST TALK: Thursday, October 22nd | doors at 6pm | talks at 6:30pm

In the upcoming
exhibit, POTENTIAL STRUCTURES, two artists take on tradition and tolerance as
they explore what "building" means in contemporary cultures. In
her work, STEFANIE JACOBSON KIRKLAND, confronts neighborhood boundaries and
family constructs within the context of ethnicity, religion and race.
Instead of choosing one community over another, she builds superstructures on
top of and within existing expectations Sculptor, BLANCA GUERRA,
investigates the negative space of the human body as a silent stage for growth
and building. Guerra's abstract work is also architectural in nature, as
it examines what might be built instead of born. Both artists seek
structures of potential as they build ideas and objects outside of more
standard frameworks.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hunt Gallery: Friday, 25 September 2015

40 @ 100 will open with a reception on Friday, September 25th, 2015 from 6-8pm.

The exhibition will run until October 24, 2015

40 @ 100is an exhibition of 40 artist alumnirepresenting
several decades who have been chosen to present work in the exhibition.The artists
come from as far away as Seattle to Maine. The earliest alum is from 1960, and
there is also a representative from our most recent graduating class in
2015. Art was one of the original
four areas of study offered at Webster University (originally known as Loretto
College for Women, and later as Webster College).The original college was
comprised of a School of Arts, also a Conservatory of Music, Departments of
Expression, and Home Economics. In short, there has been a degree in art at
Webster University since its inception. In 1975, Webster University (then Webster
College) increased the professional level of its visual arts degree options by
establishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree. Today, the Department of
Art, Design, and Art History offers the B.F.A. in several emphasis areas (e.g.
painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, etc.), as well as a B.A. in
Studio Art, B.A. in Art History and Criticism, M.A. in Studio Art, and Art
History and Criticism, as well as several certificate programs, including Art
Therapy, and Curatorial Studies.

Lisa NesserRefugee: Ten Years Along the Thai-Burma Border28 August - 25 September 2015

and in the Small Wall Gallery,Art Silverblatt: Cellphone Photography

Reception for Mr. Silverblatt Friday, 25 September, 5-7 pm

The May Gallery is located on the second floor, west wing, of theSverdrup Building at 8300 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves MO 63119. Hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-9:00 pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5:00 pm. May Gallery events are free and open to the public. Please join us!

duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 2 October 2015

Duane Reed Gallery is pleased to present a
group exhibition featuring the ceramic work of Sam Chung, Steven Young Lee,
and Sunkoo Yuh. These three artists create distinct work that incorporates
their shared eastern/western influences through figure, form, and
tradition.

Foundry Art Centre: thursday, 1 October 2015

Thursday, October 1st, 2015 | 1:30PM The Foundry Art Centre in the Ameristar Gallery at the Foundry Art
Centre. The show is free and open to the public immediately following
the luncheon available separately through The Foundry Art Centre.Click here for more information on the LuncheonThe Weavers’ Guild of St.
Louis and The Foundry Art Centre invite you to join us on Thursday, October
1st, 2015, at 1:30pm for Fiber Confluence, an
Art-to-Wear fashion show, in the Ameristar Gallery at the Foundry Art
Centre. The show features one-of-a-kind garments, jewelry and accessories
created by fiber artists from the Weavers’ Guild of St. Louis. The
title, Fiber Confluence evokes the ‘act of flowing together’ and
represents the wide variety of fiber techniques used by the innovative artists
exhibiting their designs and collaborating on ensembles.

Fiber Confluence is presented in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles
10, a collaborative event in the St. Louis, MO region, that investigates the
state of contemporary textile arts.

Benjamin Guffee Studio: Thursday, 1 October 2015

Benjamin Guffee – Prints & Opening

Above, Beneath, Around, ThroughThursday, October 1, 5p - 9p

This Spring, we had the pleasure of
working with painter Benjamin Guffee for the first
time...and we were all rewarded with some amazing prints. With his
abstracted glimpses of water, sky, and land, he beautifully captures the
transitory nature of the world around us.